The evaluation of teaching quality is a concern for leaders in higher education. Faculty supervisors must make recommendations for hiring, promoting, and rendering tenure decisions for faculty members. In addition, they must deal with problem faculty and decide how to address faculty misbehavior. Oversight and management of faculty teaching…

The aim of this study was to describe the different ways medical teachers understand what constitutes a good teacher and a good clinical supervisor and what similarities and differences they report between them. Data was gathered through interviews with 39 undergraduate teachers at a medical university. The transcripts were analysed using a…

Guidelines for selection and professional training of the university supervisor of student teachers are presented. Also included is a summary of responses by 136 cooperating teachers to a questionnaire on effective supervision. (IAH)

A study examined students' perceptions of what it is that distinguishes effective from ineffective university supervision. Subjects were 83 early childhood education majors enrolled in two field-based reading methods courses offering six weeks of university instruction and four weeks of classroom experience. Students responded to questionnaires…

This article reports on research in which cooperating teachers and the university supervisor observed the same lessons and, using the same observation instrument, recorded differing perceptions of teaching behaviors of student teachers. Results are presented, and conclusions and implications are discussed. (Author/MT)

The thinking styles of cooperating teachers and university supervisors were examined to identify differences between them. Results indicated that cooperating teachers exhibit significantly more "conventional" thinking than supervisors. University supervisors should make clear to cooperating teachers that student teachers must be…

A survey to determine why student teachers fail and what can be done to improve teacher education is discussed. Five factors of failure are identified: classroom management and discipline problems, inability to relate well with students, poor teaching methods, lack of commitment to the profession, and personal characteristics. (MLW)

This study on evaluation of university supervisors of student teachers is based on the work of Lee Goldsberry (1989). Goldsberry describes different roles that student teacher supervisors can take, focusing on the function of supervision itself. One of these roles has, as a primary purpose, maintaining a facade that supervision is being practiced.…

Fifty student teachers, their university sponsors, and sponsor teachers rated the student teachers' Preparation for Instruction, Use of Teaching Skills, Classroom Management, and Personal Qualitites. All raters showed high agreement except for Preparation for Instruction. University supervisors were more critical of lesson plans than were sponsor…

Disagreement about what constitutes good teaching persists because people's perceptions of education and of teaching are often bound up in their ideologies and undisclosed prejudices. Concentration on the form of the educational enterprise--on what is universal, as opposed to subjective--is urged. Implications for supervisors and for evaluation of…

School district administrators and university professors developed "SAM--Supervisors as Mentors," a program for supervising teachers' work with student teachers. Intensive assistance is offered in the clinical supervision cycle (preconference, observation, and postconference) once a day for the first two weeks. (MLF)

This study investigated the impact of effective instruction research findings on the way student teachers think and talk about their teaching and the kinds of instructional strategies they demonstrate. The focus was on the influence of the cooperating teacher, the university supervisor, and weekly seminars. Twelve student teachers were divided…

A study investigated performance assessments for student teachers involving self-evaluation, supervising teachers' evaluations, and college faculty supervisors' evaluations. Results show that student teachers' self-evaluations were significantly higher than either academic or field supervisor's ratings. (JN)

This paper examines the uncertainty and ambiguity surrounding student teaching supervision which may result from the individually idiosyncratic and imprecise use of language in clinical instruction and evaluative judgments. Case study methodology is used to compare the language used and the underlying images of "student teaching" and "effective…

Student teacher effectiveness was evaluated by student teachers, supervising teachers, college supervisors, and pupils using five research questions. A discussion of results is presented. (DF)